Balibaba Mosque
- Changes after its construction:
- It was first built as a masjid. In 1853, Refet Kadın Efendi, the wife of Sultan Selim III, placed a minbar in the masjid and the building was thus converted into a mosque.
- The building was used as a warehouse during World War I and was evacuated during the 1918 Armistice, but it could not be opened for worship because it was so dilapidated.
- It was rebuilt in the 1960s and took its current form.
- Prominent Features:
- Inside is the tomb of Bali Efendi.
- It has a rectangular plan close to a square, a flat roof, a thick-bodied, single-balcony minaret, its mihrab and walls are decorated with tiles, and its minbar and preacher’s pulpit are covered with the same tiles.
